How to Setup Vial On Any QMK Keyboard
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2023
- Vial is another graphical keyboard configurator but unlike others, it will auto-detect the board when plugged in. It is extremely simple to set up and all you'll need is a basic knowledge of QMK firmware and keyboard matrixes.
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"I'm gonna assume you have a knowledge of how QMK works." No, that's why I'm trying to look for tutorials 😭
Same here. Amazing (ly shitty) how little actually good documentation is out there for vial.
... no - referenceing a few entry videos would have helped. - YES it was easy to install QMK-MSYS and run, but difficult to find out it is easy 🙂
As usual, let me know if you have any questions, the next video in this series will be on POG which is a configurator for KMK firmware. As a side note, both my Discord and the official Vial Discord are great places for additional help, there are links in the description to both.
Man, this helped me a ton setting up my Cantor, thanks a lot! Your channel has really fantastic content. Keep up the good work!!
I’m just getting into keyboards and have watched a few of yours and think you do a really nice job. For this video, I didn’t even know what VIAL was until 5:24 so maybe lead with that at the start. Thanks for putting time into making great content!❤
not gonna lie these tutorials is gonna help alot of hobbyist and beginners keep it up the good stuff as always
No it's not. It doesn't help ANYONE.
Been waiting for this one
Smooth tutorial!
If you are not using VS Code that autocorrects the JSON code for you, you might want to download the JSON layout from the keyboard layout editor with the download button, otherwise there will be errors with the JSON syntax.
Thank you so much ♥️
i can only anyone encourage to try this out, the video is very compact but this works - and i am so happy to have switched from qmk and it so nice to be able to assigne and change switches in realtime instead of always flashing new firmware! Also its quite nice to be able to keep vial open in case you forgot where you assigned a key and quicklty fix that!
the 'make git-submodules' command gave me 'bash: make: comand not found'
same here :c
@@anventia also, the steps are a lot easier on the official vial website
this feels frustrating like I dont know where to start at
Question - I've wanted to create a DIY Stream Deck that can execute key-combo's - which I think I can do based on your videos - but I would like to have state built in so that the icons change. For example, if I press a button, it sends "Command + F16" and mutes my audio device, I would like the icon on the DIY stream deck to show that state as a muted icon. Is there a sort of pre-made driver/system for this so I can send data two ways between the keyboard and the PC? What do you recommend? Thnx!
I'm a noob and I was able to use this and set up vial on my idabao id75 ortholinear and winry 25-key macro pad. Thanks.
Hello, thanks for this cool tutorial. I got my dactyl manuform setup and working but I can't figure out how to create the keyboard layout for a split keyboard. Could you point me to some resources or explain that process a bit more, thanks! Great videos :)
Thank you !!! Can you plese make a tutorials video for how to add more than 4 layers.
#define DYNAMIC_KEYMAP_LAYER_COUNT 6
@@KeDoCbl Thank you
00:50 nit: -p stands for parents (because it creates the parent dirs if missing), not path
I was lost by "terminal" 30 seconds in... I have no assumed knowledge... I'm trying to work out how to increase the number of macros I can have to 109. How is this done?
Man the custom keyboard world really sucks, everyone is acting like everything is obvious when NOTHING is.
2:08 "now we're gonna paste some BOILERPLATE", that is essential, what the heck did you just paste??
Every single step is so layered by absurd knowledge I'm not sure where I'm supposed to get.
I mean you can literally just copy what’s shown in the video at 2:08.
@@joe_scotto I'm trying to make a custom 2x4 macropad work with Vial. I have a working qmk firmware running on it, I'm trying to follow what you say and it's super duper hard, it's like everything is already laid out in the steps you make, but nothing is for me.
The keyboard layout site if I make an 8 button layout simply displays empty raw data:
[{y:5,a:7},"","","",""],
["","","",""]
I have NO IDEA how to do anything to fix this and it's so frustrating trying to follow any keyboard videos.
on the vial docs says that you should clone the repo outside the qmk_firmware directory, I follow you instructions, all worked perfect except for that one.
I followed every step to setup a corne keyboard and yet it did not appear in VIAL. I used the default vial keymap that comes with the repo
a few questions i hope you could clarify:
can i use per key rgb with VIAL?
is it just a GUI for QMK or is there more to it?
is it live or do i generate a file to upload to the board?
i am trying out the k1 pro and was wishing for something like VIA but with per key rgb settings so i can get may layers more organized, i didn't find much on it
I don't believe Vial has per-key RGB control, it might be something I saw they have on the to-do list though. It's based on QMK but not really just a GUI for it, some features are missing but the main point is to be able to configure your board without having to re-flash a file. You can just change stuff on the fly and it updates immediately.
I flash my keyboard and i get lots of errors on the terminal. And when the flashing is done the keyboard does not show up on vial. Any suggestions
This is ridiculously complicated for a simple config util.
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They really made the configuration complicated.
How so? This is about as basic as it could get.
Man this whole process is so frustrating, my keyboard is being picked up by vial but I don't have access to tap dance! There's just no tab for it, so it's no different to VIA which shipped with the keyboard.
Any progress?
Nope, unfortunately not.
What terminal app is that?
iTerm 2
The -p stands for --parents. Not for path. It will make every "parent" dir if it does not exist.
what changes for Windows users? I kindda got lost
Nothing, the process is the same.
@@joe_scotto humm so I can use msys?
Yes the commands demonstrated in this video are the same across QMK regardless of the os platform
to avoid retyping that path a bunch you can use "!$" for instead of that path to insert the last value- IE "mkdir -p /foo/bar && cd!$".